Block-puzzle



(No Model.)

J. A. RUEGER.

BLOGKPUZZLE.

No. 437,002. Patented Sept. 23, 1890 mmemw.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. RUEGER, OF SAN FRANCISCQ OALIFORNIA.

BLOCK-PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,002, dated September 23, 1890.

Application filed fwruary 19,1890. Serial No. 341,000. (No model.)

To all w7z0m, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN A. RUEGER, acitizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Block-Puzzles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

elear,'and exact description of said invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it most nearly appertains to make, use, and practice the same.

My invention relates to certain new improvements in games or puzzles in which a series of numerical blocks arranged indiscriminately are designed to be conveyed around and transposed within a block or trackway until they fall one behind the other in numerical succession.

Referring to the drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference are used to denote corresponding parts throughout, Figure 1 is a top plan View showing the blocks arranged in position within the blockway; Fig. 2, a similar view with the blocks removed, and Fig. 3 a view showing the revolving transposer removed from within the center field.

Ordinarily I employ sixteen blocks for the working out of the puzzle; but it is obvious that any number of pieces or blocks may be, used. The blocks are numbered, respectively, from one to sixteen, (as the case may be,) and, as above stated, the object is to so transpose the blocks to such a position as to cause them to fall or follow in numerical order one behind the other.

In the drawings, the letter A is used to indicate the traveling pathway for the blocks, which may be constructed circular or rectangular, as shown. The inner wall of the way is provided with two or more block-openings B, so as to form communication between the block way and the center field C, within which I conveyer or transposer circular in form; but

this is immaterial. Not more than oneblockopening should be formed in the conveyer D, as shown, and the same should-be centrally secured to the base E of the field by means of the bolt F, which passes centrally therethrough. By the employment of the transposer I am enabled, as above stated, to shift the location of the blocks from one position within the blockway to another, so as to allow for the necessary change in the order thereof. Having thus described my invention and its operation, what I claim as new, and desire to secure protection in by Letters Patent of the United States, is

A puzzle having an inner field surrounded by a track or blockway, block-openings forming communication between the field and blockway, movable transposer provided with block-opening secured within the field, and a series of numerical blocks indiscriminately arranged Within the trackway and adapted to be moved therein until brought into numerical order, substantially as set forth.

I11 testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of witnesses.

JOHN A. RUEGER.

In presence of- M. G. LOEFLER, A. H. STE MARIE. 

